Contents
Foreword Nicholas Fox Weber ix
Introduction 1
I Color recollection-visual memory 3
II Color reading and contexture 4
III Why color paper-instead of pigment and paint 6
IV A color has many faces-the relativity of color 8
V Lighter and / or darker-light intensity, lightness 12
Gradation studies-new presentations
Color intensity-brightness
VI 1 color appears as 2-looking like the reversed grounds 18
VII 2 different colors look alike-subtraction of color 20
VIII Why color deception?-after-image, simultaneous contrast 22
IX Color mixture in paper-illusion of transparence 24
X Factual mixtures-additive and subtractive 27
XI Transparence and space-illusion 29
Color boundaries and plastic action
XII Optical mixture-after-image revised 33
XIII The Bezold Effect 33
XIV Color intervals and transformation 34
XV The middle mixture again-intersecting colors 37
XVI Color juxtaposition-harmony-quantity 39
XVII Film color and volume color-2 natural effects 45
XVIII Free studies-a challenge to imagination 47
Stripes-restricted juxtaposition
Fall leaf studies-an American discovery
XIX The Masters-color instrumentation 52
XX The Weber-Fechner Law-the measure in mixture 54
XXI From color temperature to humidity in color 59
XXII Vibrating boundaries-enforced contours 61
XXIII Equal light intensity-vanishing boundaries 62
XXIV Color theories-color systems 65
XXV On teaching color-some color terms 68
Explanation of color terms
Variants versus variety
XXVI In lieu of a bibliography-my first collaborators 74
Plates and commentary 75